I like the piece, but I still think that, as Jeff Bezos says, there is a need for reform in the US Patent office. 17 years is much too long for most patents on business models and things such as One - click ordering. However, I think it will be quite a while before any of this changes. And I am still a bit perturbed at some of the patents out there. (A wormhole?)
When seeing the previews for this movie (they being very vague, much like previews from the Matrix), I wanted to see this movie. I then discovered that the only cinema in my small hometown would be getting it on its opening weekend. (This happens rarely.) Furthermore, I was invited to see Mission to Mars by a friend, who is also an employee of said theatre, the night before it opened! What luck! I would be able to see the movie before the majority population even had a chance! It was a mistake I will forever regret. This movie was BAAAAD. (Not the good kind of bad that some of my friends use, but the "I would rather pluck both my eyes and my testicles out of their respective cavities with a dull, rusty spoon and then switch there locations than watch this movie again" kind of bad.) The plot (What Plot?!) was weak at best. And the musical score! Who wrote it? I want him fired, maybe even blacklisted from his profession. Furthermore, there is the suspension of common sense and everything you ever learned in school. I can't count the times (and I consider myself a good counter, being able to go to at least 127 or so) that I wondered what in the Ninth Level of the Inferno was going on, since it certainly wasn't possible. This movie was so bad (same definition as the above "bad") that even though I didn't have to pay a thing to see this movie, aside from a little gas money, I still feel cheated. I feel I should be somehow compensated. Maybe some Ben and Jerry's ice cream would help. Please, take my warning: unless you are a masochist ( and if you are, that is your business), DON'T see this movie. Do something more productive, like eating, sleeping, or masturbating.
For all who want an explaination of what quantum computing is all about, point your browsers to http://cryptome.org/qc-grover.htm for a thorough explaination of how exactly such mammoth feats of computing are possible.
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And now if I could only get my hands on one of those deity-confounded i-Openers.
I like the piece, but I still think that, as Jeff Bezos says, there is a need for reform in the US Patent office. 17 years is much too long for most patents on business models and things such as One - click ordering. However, I think it will be quite a while before any of this changes. And I am still a bit perturbed at some of the patents out there. (A wormhole?)
When seeing the previews for this movie (they being very vague, much like previews from the Matrix), I wanted to see this movie. I then discovered that the only cinema in my small hometown would be getting it on its opening weekend. (This happens rarely.)
Furthermore, I was invited to see Mission to Mars by a friend, who is also an employee of said theatre, the night before it opened! What luck! I would be able to see the movie before the majority population even had a chance! It was a mistake I will forever regret.
This movie was BAAAAD. (Not the good kind of bad that some of my friends use, but the "I would rather pluck both my eyes and my testicles out of their respective cavities with a dull, rusty spoon and then switch there locations than watch this movie again" kind of bad.)
The plot (What Plot?!) was weak at best. And the musical score! Who wrote it? I want him fired, maybe even blacklisted from his profession. Furthermore, there is the suspension of common sense and everything you ever learned in school. I can't count the times (and I consider myself a good counter, being able to go to at least 127 or so) that I wondered what in the Ninth Level of the Inferno was going on, since it certainly wasn't possible. This movie was so bad (same definition as the above "bad") that even though I didn't have to pay a thing to see this movie, aside from a little gas money, I still feel cheated. I feel I should be somehow compensated. Maybe some Ben and Jerry's ice cream would help.
Please, take my warning: unless you are a masochist ( and if you are, that is your business), DON'T see this movie. Do something more productive, like eating, sleeping, or masturbating.
For all who want an explaination of what quantum computing is all about, point your browsers to http://cryptome.org/qc-grover.htm for a thorough explaination of how exactly such mammoth feats of computing are possible.